It's a good article that showcases the way AAA games are basically hollow. They wear a lot of art, incredibly elaborate, expensive, art, but none of it comes together to make the experience it promises. Everything is built in separate pieces and stuck together later, and its boring gameplay that shows no interest in being art of its own is the glue. I remember Yahtzee did a video about the first Destiny that made this same point, about how the environmental art in a few areas was fascinating and clearly full of effort, but the gameplay was a slog that lacked the same ambition.
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The entire album Symbol by Susumu Yokota might hit the right nerve, though it's heavier on the dreamlike side and doesn't have lyrics. I use it for driving, writing, anything that needs a kind of hypnotized but functional state of mind.
Naked mole rats are considered an example of a truly "eusocial" mammal analogue to ants. More evidence for the idea that social behavior/societal grouping, once established in a species, characterizes it more potently than just about anything else in its genetic history. Chimps might be our closest genetic relatives, but the way we live and think is probably much more similar to these guys.
Yeah the real issue in a way is that there's just so much evidence of evolution happening that it's hard to find a single shared pattern to study
Sometimes ants can't smell ants either and you get supercolonies
Nobody goes nutting any more huh
One common test is the famous "mirror test" where an animal is given some problem that can only be solved by using its own reflection in a mirror for reference, such as a study involving an Australian ant. They put a blue dot made of felt (I think) on the ant's head behind the antennae, and watched the ant clean itself once it saw that it's reflection had a weird blue thing on its head. But I don't know if there are other tests for "self awareness"
Look this is true but AT LEAST it's how politics is supposed to work, it's not about choosing the most ethically and morally consistent person, it's about having a person in the seat who will vote the way their constituents want, no more
Hoooooly shit I forgot about the bedbug meltdown
HE GOOGLED "JEWS AS BEDBUGS" what a classic
Yeah I suppose the OP says "opinion" but this here fact has put me in the situation in the picture more than once
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I talked with a researcher who bluntly called whiptails "a bunch of lesbos" and he wasn't even being funny, they still sorta kinda have sex to stimulate egg production.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8556411/
That study has a great diagram:
Observe the science man presiding over the lizards and their inscrutable hormones